March 2 Tuesday – John Russell Young wrote a two-line note from the Lotos Club to Sam that he’d be in Hartford on Thursday [MTP]. Note: Young at this time was again working for the New York Herald as their European correspondent. His handwriting was extremely small.

Sam wrote to Col. George E. Waring (1833-1898), enclosing two copies of Ambulinia (or, Samuel Watson Royston’s The Enemy Conquered — see Gribben 593) [Mar 7 from Waring]. Note: Waring was a personal friend of Horace Greeley and the vice-president of the Independent Republican Club of Newport, R.I.